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The Minister of Health, Arūnas Dulkys, stated that the objective of the presented project is to establish the right of the Government to additionally provide jobs and areas of activity in which employees can work after an additional screening test for a communicable disease to the one that the state of emergency has been declared.
He presented three main changes to the bill.
Three key changes:
– The government has the right to further determine the jobs and areas of activity in which only those who have been previously examined and subsequently examined for communicable diseases or who are not infected with communicable diseases are allowed to work;
– There is a provision according to which additional health examinations can also be financed from the state budget;
– It is proposed to add to the law an exception according to which people suspected of having COVID-19 can be tested without their consent during outbreaks.
According to the minister, this last provision “is based on the need to detect communicable diseases in a timely manner and to organize epidemiological control measures.”
I. Šimonytė explained that the Government can entrust the mandatory tests even now, but the current regulation does not allow financing them with state funds.
It is true that the Government did not decide to present the proposed project in the session to the Seimas.
Justice Minister Evelina Dobrovolska asked for a break and time to familiarize herself with the proposed project.
For his part, Chancellor Gabrielius Landsbergis raised the question of whether “forced” human evidence is unconstitutional.
However, I. Šimonytė explained that “in this case we are talking about something a little different, we are talking about an outbreak that is registered in a certain institution and where all people must be investigated at the outbreak site. This is something else. Because if we act as we do now at the site of the outbreak, we will wait until someone has symptoms and then we will investigate those symptomatic people, we will not be able to control the outbreaks, ”said the Prime Minister.
However, Landsberg asked for an explanation of what the word “coercive” used in the bill meant and asked if there were any constitutional contradictions. “I understand that if it is ‘mandatory’, because otherwise a person cannot return to work, cannot work, the company cannot open.
Then there is the obligation, I understand it perfectly, but it is forced, which means that if a person says’ I refuse ‘(…) explain that it is then’, asked the president of the Conservative Party and affirmed that he would do it. vote against without further explanation, such a bill.
I. Šimonytė responded by postponing the question “until better times”. The government decided not to vote on the presentation of the bill to the Seimas.
Prime Minister I. Šimonytė announced the need for amendments to the law last Friday, when the government intended to consider the obligation to organize driving tests and training.
The prime minister then announced that “the imposition of such a state obligation could not be financed by the state itself without amending the law.”
With the approval of the Government, the Seimas will be asked to consider modifying the law with special urgency.
Driving training and test services resume after a break of several months from 10 March.
The spring session of the Seimas also begins on March 10.
